Contributions to the mechanistic understanding of the microstructural evolution in irradiated U-Mo dispersion fuel

D Salvato, CA Smith, TR Pavlov, WA Hanson… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
Advanced microstructural characterization techniques, such as scanning electron
microscopy (SEM) and scanning transmission electron microscopy-energy dispersive x-ray …

Defect cluster and nonequilibrium gas bubble associated growth in irradiated UMo fuels–A cluster dynamics and phase field model

S Hu, W Setyawan, BW Beeler, J Gan… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2020 - Elsevier
Irradiation examination shows that gas bubble swelling kinetics are much faster after
irradiation-induced recrystallization than that prior to recrystallization in U-10 wt% Mo alloy …

A modelling study of the inter-diffusion layer formation in U-Mo/Al dispersion fuel plates at high power

B Ye, GL Hofman, A Leenaers, A Bergeron… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Elsevier
Post irradiation examinations of full-size U-Mo/Al dispersion fuel plates fabricated with ZrN-
or Si-coated U-Mo particles revealed that the reaction rate of irradiation-induced U-Mo-Al …

Pore pressure estimation in irradiated UMo

D Salvato, A Leenaers, S Van den Berghe… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Elsevier
Image analysis was performed on SEM micrographs of recently irradiated UMo dispersion
fuel plates. Detailed information on the fission gas inter-granular bubbles accompanying …

Microstructural-level fuel performance modeling of U-Mo monolithic fuel

BW Beeler, LK Aagesen Jr, JI Cole, G Hofman… - 2021 - osti.gov
As the physics that governs the microstructural evolution of nuclear fuel span various time
and spatial scales, to fully understand the fuel behavior inevitably involves atomic to …

U-Mo based fuel system

A Leenaers, J Wight, S Van den Berghe… - Comprehensive …, 2020 - pure.kaist.ac.kr
Abstract for more than 2 decades a worldwide effort has been done to seek an acceptable
solution for replacing the high enriched fuel still used in high performance research reactors …

Morphological characterization of the fresh ZrN coated UMo powders used in EMPIrE irradiation experiment: A practical approach

F Housaer, F Vanni, M Touzin, F Béclin… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The European Mini-Plate Irradiation Experiment (EMPIrE) aims to test the in-pile
behavior of various ZrN coated UMo powder batches, produced using different technological …

U (Mo) grain refinement induced by irradiation with high energy iodine

D Salvato, J Shi, H Breitkreutz… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
Grain refinement in U (Mo) has been achieved out-of-pile by irradiating an U (Mo) foil with
80 MeV high-flux 127 I ions at 140° C up to a high dose of~ 2.1× 10 18 ions/cm² or a fission …

Detailed measurements of local thickness changes for U-7Mo dispersion fuel plates with Al-3.5 Si matrix after irradiation at different powers in the RERTR-9B …

DD Keiser Jr, W Williams, A Robinson, D Wachs… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Materials Management and Minimization program is develo** fuel designs to
replace highly enriched fuel with fuels of low enrichment. Swelling is an important irradiation …

Temperature effects on interdiffusion of Al and U-Mo under irradiation

B Ye, Y Miao, J Shi, D Salvato, K Mo, L Jamison… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
A high-energy Xe ion irradiation experiment was conducted to investigate the temperature
dependence of interdiffusion in bilayer Al-UMo samples under irradiation. The amount of …